David Irving v Penguin & Lipstadt (original) (raw)

Important: See also the new Deborah Lipstadt dossier
The TrialMr Irving's Opening Statement, Jan 11, 2000Mr Rampton replies for the defenceTranscripts (or use drop down menu above)Latest Press CoverageInternet Links Mr Justice Gray suggests to an American student that he follow the action on David Irving's websiteFeb 23, 2000: Mr Irving sets out as requested his views on the killing of Jews on the eastern frontJudge Gray defines a List of issues in dispute between the partiesMr Irving's Closing Statement, March 15, 2000Mr Rampton's Closing Summary, March 15, 2000*[* Website safety note: This link goes to Lipstadt's website. As the webmaster of the Lipstadt website has installed HTML to prevent anybody from returning to our website once they are trapped in hers, we have made this a magic link: just point at it, to open this document in a different window.]Richard Rampton QC's submission to the Court, March 17, 2000Mr Irving's Final Submission on March 21 to Judge GrayMr Justice Gray's Judgment April 11, 2000Films on the trial [index under construction]Reader's letter inquires why Mr Irving sued LipstadtAnalysis of the Lipstadt Trial from the Yale Law Journal, Jun 2001, by Wendie Ellen SchneiderArab press (April 2000) on the Lipstadt TrialHistory Today Impressions of the Trial by Michael KustowThe AppealApplication for Permission to Appeal: the SkeletonDefendants' Submissions on Skeleton Grounds, Oct 2, 2000Dec 18, 2000: Lord Justice Sedley refuses Mr Irving permission to appealJan 17, 2001: Appeal Court orders stay of execution to enable Mr Irving to proceedMr Irving's notes during the four day appeal: [Day 1] [Day 2] [Day 3] [Day 4]
IndexSee also the new Deborah Lipstadt dossierDeborah LipstadtThe Anti-Zionist Conference scheduled for Sweden in November 1992, and the lies that the JTA and Lipstadt spread about itHow certain people tried to suppress free speech in AtlantaUSA when David Irving came, Nov 4, 1993 ...... but Mr Irving got an immediate Court Order forcing the city courthouse to honour its hire agreement for its chamberDeborah Lipstadt's . . . March 1995 [WEBSITE APOLOGY:The document which was posted here until March 19, 1998 has been removed at the instance of Deborah Lipstadt's lawyers. It did not unfortunately then come into the public domain, as she did not enter the witness box.]David Irving answers some impertinent questions in 1996Richard Rampton's Flying Circus tours North America, speaking on trial, Oct 2000Transcript of Radio Four broadcast on Lipstadt Trial. Nov 8, 2001Scott Smith asks who paid Deborah Lipstadt's trial costs, and gets a very full answer David Irving's Initial Letter before ActionDavid Irving's Statement of Claim issued on Sept. 5, 1996 with a Writ alleging Libel in the Lipstadt bookDefencepleaded by Victoria Sharp, counsel for Deborah Lipstadt, on Apr. 18, 1997A virtually identical Defence had been settled by Ms Sharp in Mr Irving'slibel action against Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Gitta Sereny.David Irving's Replyto this Defence, served on April 19, 1997; posted here with links to relevant documents on this site.Affidavit sworn by Mr Irving's personal assistant on an episode at the Waterstone's branch in Colchester, Essex (Waterstone's staff were originally co-defendants)The foul contagion spreads:Lipstadt's book is required reading at universities in USAMay 5, 1998: Anthony Julius (of Lipstadt defence attorneys Mishcon de Reya) and Board of Deputies of British Jews pleads for funds to aid her defenceLipstadt's attorney Anthony Julius applies on May 13, 1998 for the High Court to Reject David Irving's Discovery List; Julius swears alengthy affidavit in support of his application.Affidavit by Jonathan Mozzochi, chief of US Pacific-Coast "Coalition for Human Dignity", an organisation of mob-spitters, supporting this application by Julius. . .. . . but precisely who is Mozzochi? and what is his CHD? | a police reporton him his Paranoid World The anti-Christian agitator Mozzochi stated to be in Las Vegas as dishwasherSecond affidavit by Jonathan Mozzochi, Aug.27, 1998Readers comment on David Irving's diary coverage of the libel actionLegal correspondence: the next moves, September 1998Affidavit of Mrs M B, organiser of Oct. 1994 Oregon function, sworn Sep. 15, 1998David Irving wrote to Penguin Books on Sept 11, 1998, offering to release them from the action Text of this modest offer to settle Letters (2004) discussing the motives behind making this offer and the Part 36 offer, Oct 1999Oct 2, 1998. The High Court ordered the two defamatory Mozzochi affidavits taken off the file. The writer'sdiary recordDec 15, 1998: High Court in Londonorders Deborah Lipstadt to verify her document-discovery on oathRob Ross suggests ways to exploit the lawsuit against Lipstadt ... and David Irving repliesStatements are exchanged ofwitnesses of fact [WEBSITE APOLOGY: Some of the statements and documents which were posted here from Jan. 22-25, 1999 have been removed under a High Court Order obtained by Deborah Lipstadt's lawyers on Jan 26, 1999 (see next item). They will be posted again when they come into the public domain.]Prof. Deborah Lipstadt's application for an Injunction to suppress publication on this Website of her witnesses' statements and their documents David Irving's affidavit of Jan 26, 1999 Order made by Mr Justice MosesRequest to Hitler's adjutant Otto Günsche to testify against LipstadtSet down for trial on Jan 12, 2000Interlocutory: Prof Lipstadt's concealment of Evidence:Apr 16, 1999: Mr Irving issues summons against Lipstadt alleging concealment of Video Evidence Mr Irving's affidavit supporting the summonsApr 19, 1999: Mishcon claim privilege in the videos. Mr Irving disputes the privilegeApr 20, 1999: Response by Lipstadt's lawyer Mishcon again(falsely) claiming privilege and similarAffidavit served by them Apr 21, 1999, 7:50 p.m.Apr 23, 1999: Mr Irving's Skeleton Legal Argument for the hearingRadical's Diary: High Court hearing of Apr 23, 1999Apr 23, 1999: Mishcon undertake to bring the videos to the High Court hearing; since they break this undertaking Mr Irving reports them to the Office for the Supervision of SolicitorsIt turns out that Mishcon have broken undertakings to othersMishcon ask to see a May 1959 satirical university magazine edited by Mr IrvingDavid Irving invites historian John Keegan to testify as an expert at the trialSince Dr Keegan refuses to testify voluntarily, Mr Irving puts him on notice that he will issue a subpoenaIdentities of Lipstadt's four courtroom history experts revealed, statements servedMr Irving invites Professor R Evans to answer some queries about his expert reportNiall McNamara Lodges a Formal Complaint with the Charities Commission about the Wiener Library Ltd withholding documents from Mr Irving during the Lipstadt trial2004: Times mentions the Lipstadt Trial in an attack on the fees paid to "expert witnesses" Our dossier: The fight over Mr Irving's seized possessions and archives Index to the interesting Legal Situation caused by Deborah Lipstadt's illegal postings of Mr Irving's privileged documents on her university websiteHOLOCAUST DENIAL LITERATURE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY,by John A. Drobnicki. Carol R. Goldman, Trina R. Knight, Johanna V. Thomas, 1994 (reproduced by permission of the Nizkor Site).The Courses which Prof. Lipstadt teaches at Emory University, AtlantaNovick BookChicago professor's new book on Americans and the Holocaust heaps criticism on Deborah Lipstadt: Making "shoah-business" argument, he cites Lipstadt as example of the santification of the HolocaustDeborah Lipstadt replies to Peter Novick:The holocaust in the Western mind: how Americans think the unthinkableDeborah Lipstadt on Wolfgang Benz:vaguely uneasy that a German Historian should examine the HolocaustWorried report by Jerusalem Post, Sept 24, 1999, about this libel actionSteve Pollack: "Emory's Deborah Lipstadt prepares to do battle with Holocaust Denier David Irving", Atlanta Jewish Times, Oct 8, 1999The Campaign for Democratic Renewal [one of Deborah Lipstadt's defence witnesses], summarised in Who's Who in TerrorismJudge rejects as "tainted" [Lipstadt witness] Bernie Farber in Toronto hate trialAnton Baer comments on Internet that Prof. Lipstadt's refusal to debate with Deniers lays her open to wondering if she is not the "Flat-Earther"Newsday, Long Island, reports on coming "trial of the century"Law Student John Scholes asks questions, Thursday, July 28, 2005, about the Lipstadt Trial and appeal, and gets answers, but is not satisfiedExpert Reports[some need Adobe Acrobat Reader:get it free!]Prof. Peter Longerich: 1. "Hitler's Role in the Perscution of the Jews by the Nazi regime". 2. "The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews"Professor K MacDonald on the tactics of JudaismHajo Funke: David Irving, Holocaust Denial, And His Connections To Right-Wing ExtremistsProf. Christopher Browning: Evidence for the Implementation of the Final SolutionProf Deborah Lipstadt's witness statementThe Van Pelt Report by Robert Jan Van PeltProf Richard Evans: David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial by Richard J. Evans. Warning: The Evans report in particular is highly defamatory, and is reproducible only in connection with this litigationLondon Socialist Historians Group gives Professor Richard "Skunk" Evans a rave review
Deborah Lipstadt: "There is no debate. I refuse to lower myself to debating with the revisionists."Elie Wiesel: "My experience is that the fanatic hides from true debate. The concept of dialogue is foreign to him. He knows how to speak in monologues only, so debate is superfluous to him."--"When Passion is Dangerous," Parademagazine, April 19, 1992, p. 21
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